Soil Health Restoration and Management: Application and Perspectives in Nature-Based Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

The recovery and maintenance of soil health is needed to sustain productivity, biodiversity, and human wellbeing. In fact, healthy soils provide essential functions, such as nutrient cycling, water regulation, buffering, pollution filtering, biotic support, and safe food production. The application of nature-based solutions (NBSs) in agriculture allows the improvement or maintenance of soil health with positive effects for agricultural production, including carbon storage, soil erosion mitigation, limited carbon emission, and enhanced soil fertility.

This Special Issue aims to highlight studies and innovations in NBS applications in improving the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil in agriculture. We welcome the latest NBS studies focusing on soil health restoration, along with organic waste recovery and recycling, organic fertilizer application, good practices for preventing soil erosion, compaction, and contamination; novel soil analysis; carbon farming; soil organic matter preservation; and soil health indicator evaluations, such as soil enzyme activities and stoichiometry and soil microbiomes.

Dr. Francesca Vannucchi
Dr. Cristina Macci
Guest Editors

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• soil management
• soil carbon sequestration
• sustainable agriculture
• soil organic matter, carbon and nutrient cycles
• soil function
• soil health indicators
• microbial diversity and activity